The efforts for the withdrawal of the chelae were the last, and succeeded in completely freeing the Lobster from its old case.
By this means the soft chelae were drawn through the narrow joints of the old shell, exhibiting strong, unmistakeable marks of the violence and pressure to which they had been subjected.
It was a pair of large chelaeand immediately thereafter there crawled forth a hideous kaldane of enormous proportions.
The incubus of legs and chelae and vital organs will be removed.
She noticed that its chelae waved slowly to and fro before it as it backed, backed, backed, through the round aperture in the wall.
When the mother returned there were but five babies and a great spider-like creature, which she immediately sprang to attack only to be met by powerful chelae which seized and held her so that she could not move.
Here," and he raised one of his chelae to his head, "is the perfect brain.
The head climbed to the shoulders and settled itself inside the leather collar that now hid its chelae and legs.
Turan looked in the direction the other's forefinger indicated, to see projecting from the mouth of an ulsio's burrow two large chelae and a pair of protruding eyes.
Williamson goes on: "It tests a shadow with its antennae, or sometimes, when a strong shadow is thrown on it, it jumps at it with its chelae outstretched and snapping.
The Stenopidea are a small group of forms resembling the Penaeidea in having chelae on the first three pairs of legs, but the third pair are much larger than the others.
The chelae have hooked tips, by means of which the young animal clings securely to the swimmerets of the mother.
He then puts one end of it into his mouth, and after chewing it up, presumably to soften it, takes it out in the chelae and rubs it firmly on his head or legs until it is caught by the peculiar curved hairs which cover them.
The two forms of the chelae of the male of Orchestia Darwinii, magnified 45 times.
Like the spinous processes of the Zoeae, the chelae on the penultimate pair of feet of the young Brachyscelus are to be regarded as acquired by the larva itself.
On the inner branches the chelae are developed; the outer branches are lost before an inner branch has made its appearance on the fourth segment (Figure 32).
In the higher crustaceans the anterior legs form a pair of chelae or pincers, and these are generally larger in the male than in the female.
The two chelae also often differ in structure (figs.
The chelae are sometimes of such length and size that they cannot possibly be used, as I hear from Mr. Spence Bate, for carrying food to the mouth.
I am greatly indebted to Mr. Spence Bate for nearly all the above statements with respect to the chelae of the higher crustaceans.
In the one form the male is furnished with more numerous smelling-threads, and in the other form with more powerful and more elongated chelae or pincers which serve to hold the female.
Orchestia Darwinii (from Fritz Mueller), showing the differently-constructed chelae of the two male forms.
In many species the chelae on the opposite sides of the body are of unequal size, the right-hand one being, as I am informed by Mr. C.
The chelae of many crustaceans are weapons well adapted for fighting.
It is probable that the great size of one leg with its chelae may aid the male in fighting with his rivals; but this use will not account for their inequality in the female on the opposite sides of the body.
Gelasimus, proportions of the sexes in a species of; use of the enlarged chelae of the male; pugnacity of males of; rational actions of a; difference of colour in the sexes of a species of.
In the one form the male is furnished with more numerous smelling-threads, and in the other form with more powerful and more elongated chelae or pincers, which serve to hold the female.
The great size of the one leg with its chelae may aid the male in fighting with his rivals; but this will not account for their inequality in the female on the opposite sides of the body.
Orchestia Darwinii (from Fritz Muller), showing the differently- constructed chelaeof the two male forms.
The two chelae of the male often differ in structure (Figs.
As I hear from Mr. Bate, the chelae are sometimes of such length and size that they cannot possibly be used for carrying food to the mouth.
The true lobsters, forming the family Homaridae, are distinguished from the other Macrura by having the first three pairs of legs terminating in chelae or pincers.
The same scorpion carrying the now paralysed fly held in its chelicerae, the chelae liberated for attack and defence.
The proportionately enormous chelae (chelicerae) of the first pair of appendages are not provided with poison glands; their bite is not venomous.
A scorpion having seized its prey (usually a large insect, or small reptile or mammal) with the large chelae brings its tail over its head, and deliberately punctures the struggling victim twice with its sting (fig.
The scorpions use their large chelaefor seizing prey and for fighting with one another.
The chelae are marbled with purplish spots and are nearly smooth.
The chelae are large and somewhat unequal in size; then come three pairs of simple feet and a fifth pair, which are flattened, forming swimming-organs.
The appendages on the anterior and posterior ends are furnished with chelae and hooks; those of the middle section are rudimentary.
The four posterior pairs of legs are more or less hairy; the chelae are rather large in proportion.
One of the chelae is larger than the other, and both are proportionately enormously large, and are tipped with black.
In some species chelae are on two or three pairs of the legs.
The chelae are large, broad, and flattened, and are so arranged that when flexed they fit closely together across the front.
The body is about an inch thick; the first joints of the chelae are toothed; one chela is a little longer than the other, and both are coarsely granulated.
In preparation for moulting, the lime around the contracted joints of the chelae is absorbed, so that the soft flesh can pass through.
From the details reported however it seems still possible that one of the chelae (that lettered F.
Two large chelae of nearly equal size are simply drawn and four rounded projections at the top of the figure appear to represent the walking legs.
Its rotund form and subequal chelae suggest the land crab, Geocarcinus, but exact determination is of course impossible.
In Phrynus and Thelyphona the anterior pair are chelate; but in Galeodes they are pediform, as in the Araneidae, and the greatchelae are the mandibles.
As the chelae of Crustaceans resemble in some degree the avicularia of Polyzoa, both serving as pincers, it may be worth while to show that with the former a long series of serviceable gradations still exists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chelae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
